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Old 5th April 2013, 12:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Delirium View Post
Breaking Bad.
Twin Peaks.
Carnivale.
Deadwood.
Battlestar Galactica
Firefly..

I could go on. And I haven't even seen Game of Thrones, Mad Men, The Wire, Treme, and Boardwalk Empire yet.

There's no comparison.
Twin Peaks..6great episodes followed by a series that completely fell apart.
Carnivale...never ended.
Battlestar...extremely over-rated.


You could go on but american tv isn't as good. They spoon feed in the sitcoms and programming. It's just not as good nor as intelligent. The structure is what kills it. The longer seasons and the dumbed down scripts.

You realize it's only by doing the shorter seasons like those done in the UK that they have managed to structure some of these shows tighter.

A good show like Carnivale will be either watered down or cancelled. You mention Firefly, a series cancelled after the first season. And twin peaks a show that was so bungled by the channel that he literally killed off his cast.
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